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Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ Listed in this section are new language constructs that help precise, typechecke
So what should conceptually be a type error would not be reported and
runtime behavior might change instead. Multiversal equality closes that loophole.

- Restrict Implicit Conversions

([Pending](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/4229))
Implicit conversions are very easily mis-used, which makes them the cause of much suprising behavior.
We now require a language feature import not only when an implicit conversion is defined
by also when it is applied. This protects users of libraries that define implicit conversions
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also: misused*

from being bitten by unanticipated feature interactions.

- Null safety

(Planned) Adding a `null` value to every type has been called a "Billion Dollar Mistake"
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